This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: efi: Fix stub cache maintenance
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-efi-fix-stub-cache-maintenance.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9b0b26580a753d4d6bdd2b8b4ca9a8f3f2d39065 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:22:01 +0000
Subject: arm64: efi: Fix stub cache maintenance
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
commit 9b0b26580a753d4d6bdd2b8b4ca9a8f3f2d39065 upstream.
While efi-entry.S mentions that efi_entry() will have relocated the
kernel image, it actually means that efi_entry will have placed a copy
of the kernel in the appropriate location, and until this is branched to
at the end of efi_entry.S, all instructions are executed from the
original image.
Thus while the flush in efi_entry.S does ensure that the copy is visible
to noncacheable accesses, it does not guarantee that this is true for
the image instructions are being executed from. This could have
disasterous effects when the MMU and caches are disabled if the image
has not been naturally evicted to the PoC.
Additionally, due to a missing dsb following the ic ialluis, the new
kernel image is not necessarily clean in the I-cache when it is branched
to, with similar potentially disasterous effects.
This patch adds additional flushing to ensure that the currently
executing stub text is flushed to the PoC and is thus visible to
noncacheable accesses. As it is placed after the instructions cache
maintenance for the new image and __flush_dcache_area already contains a
dsb, we do not need to add a separate barrier to ensure completion of
the icache maintenance.
Comments are updated to clarify the situation with regard to the two
images and the maintenance required for both.
Fixes: 3c7f255039a2ad6ee1e3890505caf0d029b22e29
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
@@ -54,18 +54,17 @@ ENTRY(efi_stub_entry)
b.eq efi_load_fail
/*
- * efi_entry() will have relocated the kernel image if necessary
- * and we return here with device tree address in x0 and the kernel
- * entry point stored at *image_addr. Save those values in registers
- * which are callee preserved.
+ * efi_entry() will have copied the kernel image if necessary and we
+ * return here with device tree address in x0 and the kernel entry
+ * point stored at *image_addr. Save those values in registers which
+ * are callee preserved.
*/
mov x20, x0 // DTB address
ldr x0, [sp, #16] // relocated _text address
mov x21, x0
/*
- * Flush dcache covering current runtime addresses
- * of kernel text/data. Then flush all of icache.
+ * Calculate size of the kernel Image (same for original and copy).
*/
adrp x1, _text
add x1, x1, #:lo12:_text
@@ -73,9 +72,24 @@ ENTRY(efi_stub_entry)
add x2, x2, #:lo12:_edata
sub x1, x2, x1
+ /*
+ * Flush the copied Image to the PoC, and ensure it is not shadowed by
+ * stale icache entries from before relocation.
+ */
bl __flush_dcache_area
ic ialluis
+ /*
+ * Ensure that the rest of this function (in the original Image) is
+ * visible when the caches are disabled. The I-cache can't have stale
+ * entries for the VA range of the current image, so no maintenance is
+ * necessary.
+ */
+ adr x0, efi_stub_entry
+ adr x1, efi_stub_entry_end
+ sub x1, x1, x0
+ bl __flush_dcache_area
+
/* Turn off Dcache and MMU */
mrs x0, CurrentEL
cmp x0, #CurrentEL_EL2
@@ -105,4 +119,5 @@ efi_load_fail:
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #32
ret
+efi_stub_entry_end:
ENDPROC(efi_stub_entry)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/arm64-efi-fix-stub-cache-maintenance.patch
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